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In early October, DualEntry, an AI enterprise resource planning (ERP) startup, announced a $90 million Series A round led by Lightspeed and Khosla Ventures, valuing the one-year-old business at $415 million. The company seeks to replace legacy software like Oracle NetSuite with its offering that can automate routine tasks and provide predictive insights. The massive funding round from top-tier VCs signaled that the startup is likely experiencing phenomenal revenue growth. However, one VC who declined to invest told TechCrunch that DualEntry’s annual recurring revenue (ARR) was just around $400,000 when he reviewed the deal in August. DualEntry’s co-founder, Santiago Nestares,…

If you’re still looking for best-in-class or best-of-breed when it comes to your enterprise management systems, it might be time to raise your expectations.According to Stephan de Barse, president of the global Business Suite for SAP, a new gold standard has emerged — a superlative he calls “best of suite.”In de Barse’s view, the competitive arena for enterprise management now exists within an integrated framework of AI, data, and core applications. That elevates it from a narrower proving ground, where being a “best of breed” provider checks only one or two of those boxes.And while being “best of suite” isn’t…

By Kevin Keenan, VP, corporate communications, ReltioIn the hospitality business, every interaction counts. Guests expect instant recognition, personalized experiences, and seamless service whether they’re booking a stay, checking in, or redeeming loyalty points. For IHG Hotels & Resorts, a company with more than 6,800 hotels across 100+ countries and 145 million loyalty members, that expectation translates into one thing: trusted, real-time data at a global scale.But like many global enterprises, IHG’s data was fragmented across legacy systems. Different regions and brands stored guest information in separate data sources, creating inconsistencies that limited the company’s ability to personalize experiences and innovate…

Anthropic is prepping for an IPO that could come as early as 2026, the FT reports. It has brought on law firm Wilson Sonsini to help kick off the process, and the company is tackling an internal checklist to prepare it for what could be one of the largest IPOs ever. The company is also reportedly looking to raise a funding round that could value it at over $300 billion and has also been in talks with investment banks, though it has not chosen an underwriter, the FT reported. Anthropic last announced a $13 billion raise in September, giving it…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has assigned a risk classification to a previous voluntary recall of various shredded cheese products sold at ALDI, Target, Walmart and other national retailers due to potential metal contamination.Below, find out what to know about the recall, as well as what steps to take if you have any impacted product in your fridge.What to know about shredded cheese recallGreat Lakes Cheese Co Inc. first initiated the voluntary recall with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration back on Oct. 3. The company said some products may potentially contain metal fragments from “supplier raw material,” according…

An instructor at the University of Oklahoma has been placed on leave after a student complained that she received a failing grade on a paper that cited the Bible to assert that the “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”Samantha Fulnecky, 20, filed a complaint with the administration, the latest flashpoint in the ongoing debate over academic freedom on college campuses amid President Donald Trump’s push to end diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and restrict how campuses discuss issues of race, gender and sexuality.“OU remains firmly committed to fairness, respect and protecting every student’s right to express sincerely held religious beliefs,”…

There is a recall for more than 260,000 cases of shredded cheese sold in 31 states and Puerto Rico because of the potential for metal fragment contamination, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.The FDA said that the various shredded cheeses were recalled by Great Lakes Cheese Co. The cheese products are sold under private store-brand labels at several retailers, including Target, Walmart and Aldi.The recall includes various cheeses such as mozzarella, Italian style, pizza style, mozzarella and provolone and mozzarella and parmesan.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe recall has a Class II classification, because the product “may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse…

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal vaccine advisory committee this week is expected to discuss whether newborns should still get the hepatitis B vaccine — the first shot found to prevent cancer.Federal health recommendations now suggest that all babies be vaccinated against the liver infection in their first day of life, but U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s committee on Thursday is expected to change that — contradicting previous public health advice.It’s not clear exactly what the committee is considering, but the American Academy of Pediatrics will still urge a birth dose, said the organization’s Dr. Sean O’Leary.“We are…

A voluntary recall was issued for hundreds of thousands of cases of bags of shredded cheese sold at major retailers in October, according to the Food and Drug Administration.More than 250,000 cases of cheese were recalled by the Great Lakes Cheese Co. in a voluntary recall to retailers on Oct. 3, an FDA report said. The report’s classification date is marked Dec. 1, and the recall was described as “ongoing.”A list of brands named in the report include popular store-owned brands from Target, Aldi, Walmart and H-E-B grocery stores such as Good & Gather, Happy Farms, Hill Country and Great…

Right on the heels of announcing Nova Forge, a service to train custom Nova AI models, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced more tools for enterprise customers to create their own frontier models. AWS announced new capabilities in Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI at its AWS re:Invent conference on Wednesday. These new capabilities are designed to make building and fine-tuning custom large language models (LLMs) easier for developers. The cloud provider is introducing serverless model customization in SageMaker, which allows developers to start building a model without needing to think about compute resources or infrastructure, according to Ankur Mehrotra, general…